[zeromq-dev] Multicore Magic

[Martin Sustrik]

Brian Granger wrote:

> BUT, the other part is scalability and this is where I am still
> hopeful.  Maybe we will be stuck with horrible latency in Python
> because of this issue.  But if that latency scales well (is constant)
> with the total number of processes, we will be OK.  Traditional
> threading with shared memory and locks, etc. is super fast....until
> you have hundreds or thousands of threads all chomping on the locks.

A horrible hack is still possible: run several python interpreters in 
parallel in the same process.

To make it work python interpreter cannot use any global variables. 
That's probably not the case.

Anyhow, it's a nasty hack.
Martin